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- Baghdad_Railway abstract "The Baghdad Railway (Turkish: Bağdat Demiryolu, German: Bagdadbahn, French: Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was built from 1903 to 1940 to connect Berlin with the (then) Ottoman Empire city of Baghdad, where the Germans wanted to establish a port in the Persian Gulf, with a 1,600 kilometres (1,000 mi) line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.Completion of the project took several decades and by the outbreak of World War I, the railway was still 960 km (600 miles) away from its intended objective. The last stretch to Baghdad was built in the late 1930s and the first train to travel from Istanbul to Baghdad departed in 1940.Funding and engineering was mainly provided by German Empire banks and companies, which in the 1890s had built the Anatolian Railway (Anatolische Eisenbahn) connecting Constantinople, Ankara and Konya. The Ottoman Empire wished to maintain its control of Arabia and to expand its influence across the Red Sea into the nominally Ottoman (until 1914) Khedivate of Egypt, which had been under British military control since the Urabi Revolt in 1882. The Germans gained access to and ownership of oil fields in Iraq, and with a line to the port of Basra would have gained better access to the eastern parts of the German colonial empire, by avoiding the Suez Canal.The railway became a source of international disputes during the years immediately preceding World War I. Although it has been argued that they were resolved in 1914 before the war began, it has also been argued that the railway was a leading cause of the First World War. Technical difficulties in the remote Taurus Mountains and diplomatic delays meant that by 1915 the railway was still 480 kilometres (300 mi) short of completion, severely limiting its use during the war in which Baghdad was occupied by the British while the Hejaz railway in the south was attacked by guerrilla forces led by T. E. Lawrence. Construction resumed in the 1930s and was completed in 1940.A history of this railway in the context of World War I history has lately emerged to describe the German interests in countering the British Empire, and Turkey's interest in countering their Russian rivals. As stated by a contemporary 'on the ground' at the time, Morris Jastrow wrote "It was felt in England that if, as Napoleon is said to have remarked, Antwerp in the hands of a great continental power was a pistol leveled at the English coast, Baghdad and the Persian Gulf inthe hands of Germany (or any other strong power) would be a 42-centimetre gun pointed at India."".
- Baghdad_Railway thumbnail CIOB_map.PNG?width=300.
- Baghdad_Railway wikiPageExternalLink CIOB.
- Baghdad_Railway wikiPageExternalLink warandthebagdadr001985mbp.
- Baghdad_Railway wikiPageID "1958295".
- Baghdad_Railway wikiPageRevisionID "604758198".
- Baghdad_Railway endYear "1921".
- Baghdad_Railway hasPhotoCollection Baghdad_Railway.
- Baghdad_Railway hqCity Adana.
- Baghdad_Railway imageCaption "Baghdad railway circa 1900-1910".
- Baghdad_Railway imageSize "300".
- Baghdad_Railway locale "Southeastern Turkey,".
- Baghdad_Railway logoSize "100".
- Baghdad_Railway mapCaption "CIOB in red".
- Baghdad_Railway mapSize "300".
- Baghdad_Railway marks "CIOB".
- Baghdad_Railway railroadName "Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad".
- Baghdad_Railway startYear "1904".
- Baghdad_Railway successorLine Turkish_State_Railways.
- Baghdad_Railway successorLine Chemins_de_fer_de_Cilicie_Nord_Syrie.
- Baghdad_Railway systemMap "CIOB map.PNG".
- Baghdad_Railway subject Category:Cross-border_railway_lines_in_Turkey.
- Baghdad_Railway subject Category:Ottoman_railways.
- Baghdad_Railway subject Category:Rail_transport_in_Iraq.
- Baghdad_Railway subject Category:Rail_transport_in_Syria.
- Baghdad_Railway subject Category:Standard_gauge_railways_in_Iraq.
- Baghdad_Railway subject Category:Standard_gauge_railways_in_Syria.
- Baghdad_Railway subject Category:Standard_gauge_railways_in_Turkey.
- Baghdad_Railway subject Category:World_War_I.
- Baghdad_Railway type Abstraction100002137.
- Baghdad_Railway type Business108061042.
- Baghdad_Railway type Carrier108057633.
- Baghdad_Railway type Cross-borderRailwayLinesInTurkey.
- Baghdad_Railway type Enterprise108056231.
- Baghdad_Railway type Group100031264.
- Baghdad_Railway type Line103671473.
- Baghdad_Railway type Organization108008335.
- Baghdad_Railway type OttomanRailways.
- Baghdad_Railway type Railway104048568.
- Baghdad_Railway type SocialGroup107950920.
- Baghdad_Railway type StandardGaugeRailwaysInIraq.
- Baghdad_Railway type StandardGaugeRailwaysInSyria.
- Baghdad_Railway type StandardGaugeRailwaysInTurkey.
- Baghdad_Railway type YagoLegalActor.
- Baghdad_Railway type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Baghdad_Railway type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Baghdad_Railway comment "The Baghdad Railway (Turkish: Bağdat Demiryolu, German: Bagdadbahn, French: Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was built from 1903 to 1940 to connect Berlin with the (then) Ottoman Empire city of Baghdad, where the Germans wanted to establish a port in the Persian Gulf, with a 1,600 kilometres (1,000 mi) line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.Completion of the project took several decades and by the outbreak of World War I, the railway was still 960 km (600 miles) away from its intended objective. ".
- Baghdad_Railway label "Bagdadbahn".
- Baghdad_Railway label "Baghdad Railway".
- Baghdad_Railway label "Chemin de fer Berlin-Bagdad".
- Baghdad_Railway label "Ferrovia Berlim-Bagdá".
- Baghdad_Railway label "Ferrovia Berlino-Baghdad".
- Baghdad_Railway label "Багдадская железная дорога".
- Baghdad_Railway label "سكة حديد بغداد".
- Baghdad_Railway label "バグダード鉄道".
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs Bagdadbahn.
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs Σιδηρόδρομος_της_Βαγδάτης.
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs Chemin_de_fer_Berlin-Bagdad.
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs Ferrovia_Berlino-Baghdad.
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs バグダード鉄道.
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs Ferrovia_Berlim-Bagdá.
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs m.068zn6.
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs Q639128.
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs Q639128.
- Baghdad_Railway sameAs Baghdad_Railway.
- Baghdad_Railway wasDerivedFrom Baghdad_Railway?oldid=604758198.
- Baghdad_Railway depiction CIOB_map.PNG.
- Baghdad_Railway isPrimaryTopicOf Baghdad_Railway.